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mk  ·  4690 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Can we have a feature to ignore particular hubs?
caio is correct.

astol, I see you are only following 4 tags, and no hubs. Posts are primarily filtered in Hubski by following people. Tags on the other hand, are open-ended.

I take it you want to ignore some tags, but not necessarily the people that posted them. That's a tough one. The number of tags a user ignored could get very large. Although you block #marinebiology, #sealife might get through then need to be blocked also, then #whales, #dolphins, #thesea, etc. It would become very convoluted if every user had a very complex subscription formula. Also it wouldn't be very apparent what the users you followed were really posting or sharing, and that would begin to diminish the point of following users in general.

I'm looking at your feed, and I don't see Saydrah's #marinebiology post. Currently, you aren't following her, #marinebiology, or anyone that shared it. The only way you should see it, is if it passes through as an external post (the light blue ones). If you follow someone, you get the whole package, so you should choose people with some care. What I suggest, is finding someone that posts and shares stuff that you like more often than not, follow that user, and begin to follow other people from there. Importantly, if someone is sharing and posting stuff you don't like, unfollow them.

Hope that helps.





astol  ·  4687 days ago  ·  link  ·  
What you did is perfect, and addresses what you were saying, in that you might follow someone but want to ignore a tag they post in.

http://i.imgur.com/hwnl2.png

I saw a post about Architecture. Ignored it, and reloaded page and it didnt show up. Perfect, but here is how it gets better. I also decided to follow Lessismore, as he/she has some good posts. Now, lessismore is the one who posted the architecture thread, and even though I ignored architecture, I'm following lessismore, so it showed the thread, but showed I had also ignored architecture by putting it in red.

Love it!

mk  ·  4687 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Super cool. Thanks!